Translation, scholarship, and original writing can function as reciprocal props, platforms, and opportunities for performance. Panelists will talk about the myriad paths they’ve traveled, as their translation work has led them to write biographies, literary and cultural studies, memoirs, poems, and fictions (in which translators may be starring characters!). This will be a discussion about working lives, works in-progress, and the shifting literary precincts we call “home.” Moderator: Marguerite Feitlowitz Participants: Esther Allen Aaron Coleman Katrina Dodson Stefania Heim Bruna…

Lisandro Pérez and Esther Allen talk about Pérez's recent book, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. A hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-Century Northeast United States. Pérez traces the formation of this community and how it was shaped both by the sugar trade and the struggle for independence from Spain.